Speaker 1

Heather Mattie

Speaker 2

David S. Jones

Speaker 3

Nathaniel Hendrix

Speaker Bio

Dr. Heather Mattie is a Lecturer on Biostatistics and co-director of the Health Data Science Master’s program in the Biostatistics department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She teaches several courses including Introduction to Data Science, Reproducible Data Science, and Data Science II: Deep Learning. Dr. Mattie’s research focuses on the intersection between biostatistics, data science, and network science. Specifically, she has used network science and machine learning to study interactions in communities, as well as the development and application of artificial intelligence in healthcare research. Her research has also involved the notion of algorithmic bias, in terms of an algorithm compounding inequities working against underrepresented or disadvantaged groups in society. Her work has found links between unhealthy weight control behaviors and the use of mobile dating applications, particularly in racial and ethnic minorities. She has developed methods that predict tie strength in a network, which assists in modeling the spread of disease and information. Additionally, her work has examined the potential for artificial intelligence to improve inference from data for care and population health, as well as the challenges related to bias and scalability in such models.

Dr. David Jones, trained in psychiatry and history of science, is the Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. His research has explored the causes and meanings of health inequalities (Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600) and decision making in cardiac therapeutics (Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care). He is now pursuing three new projects, on the evolution of coronary artery surgery, on heart disease and cardiac therapeutics in India, and on the threat of air pollution to health. He teaches the history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Nathaniel Hendrix is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Global Health & Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His past training is in pharmacy and health economics, and the focus of his fellowship is cost-effectiveness methodology, which he studies under the supervision of Stéphane Verguet. His research in artificial intelligence is in three main areas: using conjoint analysis to study stakeholder attitudes towards clinical artificial intelligence; leveraging simulation methods to inform the clinical translation of artificial intelligence-based risk scores in cancer screening; and developing methodologies for performing cost-effectiveness analysis on artificial intelligence-based clinical tools.

Host

Center for Research on Computation and Society

Contact

Hila Bernstein

Phone

617-495-0370

Email

CRCS@seas.harvard.edu